Posts by Swarthy

In short: No, it will not run a 64-bit OS.

However, it will be a minimum of 5-7 years before 32-bit support may be completely gone from any distro - even from Ubuntu, which has given the shortest timeline. Even then, there will be smaller, more niche-oriented distros that will continue to support the 32-bit OS & libraries. I wouldn't be surprised if Mint takes one of those for an Upstream provider for their 32-bit offering. Mint already offers a Debian(directly) derived version, and Debian has not committed, or commented, that 32-bit is out.

Also, it bears mentioning that the whole "killing 32-bit" thing is a proposal from a Ubuntu developer, and a comment about the cost of it from OpenSUSE. No road-maps have been updated, no proposals accepted, or even formally submitted. This is the beginning of the conversation about if i686 should be discontinued.

Re: Has it been six months already?

I favor a sand-filled dead-weight hammer. It takes a bit more effort, but the satisfaction of a job well done is worth it. Especially when the chips start flying off of the controller board.

Re: Voting patterns

This being the FBI, it may be that the "donation" envelope carried not cash but was full of certain pictures, with a note along the lines of "We'll be nice to you and keep these quiet, if you are nice to us..."

Re: Hunger, the best sauce

If society collapsed and there were no shops to buy food from and not enough time to grow crops and my family and two cats were starving, I would cook and eat the family to keep me and the cats going 'til we could find something better.

You're only saying that because the cats are reading this, and you are hoping they'll spare you to prep the others. But you don't realize that your youngest has already made a deal with the devilskitties that will have you be the first on their menu. (Maybe you should have paid a larger allowance?)

Re: 30,000 lines of code

And only 1035 lines with anything in them. (not counting the linked JS scripts)

Why do I get the feeling that they were charged per line, and the invoice included the blank ones.

Re: Say what?

Cable Companies DO service their customers!

_{The same way the bull services the cow}

Re: 13.1 W.

A tenth - like in the part of the article that mentioned the AA Battery? According to the researchers, the chip can execute 115 billion operators a second while dissipating only 0.7W, requiring only a AA battery.

The 13.1W TDP was for 1 Trillion Ops/Sec (TrOPS?) slowing down to ~100 Billion OPS(0.10 TrOPS) lowered the power requirement to a AA battery.

Re: Why I left the UK

Please share which country you've found that will recognize and reward technical skills.

I've got my coat, and am ready to go. --->

Re: Success wrapped around a Fail?

Additionally, I think Twitter's T&C allow for punting someone for "inappropriate" profile pictures. So if the reporting & take down attempts are slow or ineffective, this porn-smearing should up the numbers taken down. Kind of a win-win-win.

Re: You forgot they were aristorcrats of their time, so:

Will,

GoodOnYa'!

Re: Moderator comment

But resistance is what caused the injury. If the man had only conducted, the TASER pulses would have done him no harm.

Re: Tech story because?

Bootnotes.

Do try to keep up.

Re: Great

Two suns, and a hulking big (slightly glowing - probably) planet floating above it. That would be the second most awesome sky-scape ever, first place would be if the planet had rings visible from the moon.

Re: Don't get too excited

As much as it causes me physical pain to say it, in America, if you abstain from voting, or vote for any third-party candidate, you are part of the problem. You're effectively casting half a vote for Trump if you do that.

I HATE it when people say that. "If you don't vote for a lizard, the wrong lizard might get in." (Credit to D. Adams)

If enough people realize that there is another option, it's not "throwing your vote away"; but with all of the fatalists (and people who profit from the status quo) churning that crap out the impressionable folks believe it. So the 3rd party never gets a shot. I didn't waste my vote - you convinced enough people to waste theirs.

Re: Well, no, not really..

Just to clarify:

• He froze the sperm before he left. The sperm has NO zika virus in it. It cannot infect anyone with zika
• He will be following the advice regarding non-transmission after his return
• The sperm will be used if they want to start a second kid less than a year after he gets back.(because condoms stop(?) zika, but they also stop babies)

So this is a contingency plan, if he gets sick, and they want another baby, they use the frozen stuff so that he does not risk infecting his wife.

Re: As Bob Dylan wrote...

This article does seem a rantier version of one of Orlowski's better articles, or that one could have been written as a response to this one.

Really, as ranty as this one was, I was looking for the "Originally posted at The Conversation" tag at the bottom of the tirade article.

Re: There are only two queens on this planet.

I think RuPaul would also disagree.

Re: A Five million year old city?

The "paved flooring" does look Cyclopean.

Re: Extension

Although.....

Re: 360° badger sett simulator

No headband, because you wouldn't want to Tie Your Mother Down.

I Want to Ride My Bicycle while wearing these - but that's Stone Cold Crazy.

Re: Then again...

Since you can't use two Icons at once, I'll provide the second one for you --->